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Articles in September 2005 issue of American Prospect, The

• Student body right: at evangelical colleges like Pat Robertson's Regent, what they're taught and what they learn are two very different things.
  by Hayes, Christopher
• Pop-aganda: a question for Karen Hughes: why is the administration peddling the kind of schlock to the Arab world that it's always denouncing at home?(DISPATCHES)
  by Franke-Ruta, Garance
• Point, Jacoby.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Threlkeld, Albert
• Chronic pain and opioids.
• Cruel convergence: the era of get-tough juvenile justice is also the era of managed care, and children with mental-health needs are caught in the crossfire.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• The good fight: the new Partnership for a Secure America represents the good kind of bipartisanship. But is bipartisanship enough to dislodge the neocons?(DISPATCHES)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• As Orwell said.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Bodden, William
• Detention redemption: in one California county, progressive leaders and law-enforcement officials are transforming a troubled juvenile-justice system.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by Townsend, Peggy
• First do some harm: physicians and psychologists are now taking part in interrogations. But are they following their professions' rules, or the military's?(DISPATCHES)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• Karl's bad.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Turner, M. Vince
• They want your TV.(Devil in the Details)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Race and redemption: reform is coming to juvenile justice. But except in pioneering communities, it still comes too slowly for black and Latino youths.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by Cose, Ellis
• Voice-over America: you've read about what Kenneth Tomlinson is doing to public TV. What he's already done to the Voice of America is his other scandal.(Dispatches)
  by Levine, Art
• Bayou betterment: in Louisiana, a new juvenile justice system is emerging, with the governor's strong support. If reform can happen here, it can succeed anywhere.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by Reckdahl, Katy
• A culture of caring with an inspired leader at the helm, Missouri shows the rest of the nation an effective--and cost-effective--reform model for young offenders.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by McGarvey, Ayelish
• From the August 3 broadcast of the Focus on the Family radio show James Dobson.(TRANSCRIPT)(Brief Article)(Transcript)
• The conservative as liberal.(Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey)(Book Review)
  by Kutler, Stanley I.
• Our federalists.(Devil in the Details)
  by Dubner, Jeffrey
• Communities helping kids: why diversion, outreach, and counseling programs serve troubled children--and society--better than prisons.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by Marcus, David L.
• Metro food fight.(Devil in the Details)
  by Kline, Jordan
• Always political.(Advice and Consent: the Politics of Judicial Appointments)(Book Review)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• Adolescents, maturity, and the law: why science and development matter in juvenile justice.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by Fagan, Jeffrey
• Dossier: back to school.
• The collapse.(Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War)(Book Review)
  by Ackerman, Spencer
• Day 1,461 and counting.(THE LAST WORD)
  by Tomasky, Michael
• Reforming juvenile justice: a century ago, reformers proved that prisons don't help wayward children. Now America is learning that lesson all over again.(SPECIAL REPORT: JUVENILE JUSTICE)
  by Krisberg, Barry
• Iraq, quantified.(Devil in the Details)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• Wrong, wrong, and ... wrong!
  by Kline, Jordan; Zureick, Alyson
• Who gives a flying flag? The smearing of Joe Wilson, the excuses for Karl Rove: for the pundits of the right, national security is just a bumper sticker.(MEDIA)
  by Gitlin, Todd
• Their war, too: are mere pundits responsible when an administration's policy goes wrong? When their sophistic arguments helped sell and sustain it, very.(Cover Story)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Letting go of Iraq.(PROSPECTS)
  by Starr, Paul
• Nasty weather.(COIN-OP COLLECTIVE)(Poem)
• Inferior design: in late September, a contemporary Scopes trial gets under way in Pennsylvania. For the right, it's been 39 years in the making.
  by Mooney, Chris
• How times have changed.(THE TAXONOMIST)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Sasha v. Sasha.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Polakow-Suransky, Sasha